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About HyreYard
An independent resource for homeowners planning outdoor work. Not a landscaping company, and specific about what that means.
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HyreYard is an independent resource for homeowners planning outdoor work, and a connection platform for reaching local landscaping companies. It is published by the HyreYard Research desk, which reads statutes, municipal codes, water-district rules and federal soil files directly and publishes each figure with the document it came from and the date it was retrieved. It is not a landscaping company: it plants nothing, grades nothing, builds no wall, cuts no tree, applies no chemical and pulls no permit. It publishes no average landscaping price, rates no company, and takes no payment for a favourable mention.
What HyreYard is, and what it isn’t
HyreYard is an independent resource for homeowners. We focus on helping people understand the decisions inside an outdoor project — soil, drainage, regional plant fit, base preparation and contractor selection — and on connecting them with local landscaping professionals when they are ready to get quotes. We are not a landscaping company.
- We are not a landscaping company and we do not perform outdoor work.
- We do not recommend specific pesticides or fertiliser programmes.
- No landscaper is rated or reviewed here, because nothing behind such a rating is verified yet.
How we expect to be paid, stated up front
A site that connects homeowners to contractors and does not say how it is paid has buried the most material fact about itself, so here it is in the second section rather than the last one.
HyreYard expects to earn revenue from landscaping companies for introducing homeowners who asked to be introduced. That arrangement is not live yet. When it is, it will be disclosed where it applies. Two things it will not do: it will not change what these pages say about base depth, drainage, plant choice or contract terms, and it will not create a ranking — because there is no ranking here for anyone to buy into. There is no paid placement in editorial, no sponsored listing, and no fee for a favourable mention.
Homeowners are never charged. The calculators, the service pages and the research are open and ungated, and there is no account to create.
The research desk
We are a research desk, not a landscaping company. We read the statute, the municipal code, the water-district rule or the federal soil file ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it. Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify. This programme is new. The counts below are what we can already stand behind — a seven-state roster and a rule that we will not make a national claim from it.
| Counted | What it is |
|---|---|
| 10 | studies published |
| 50 | states in the licensing and HOA tables |
| 7 | states the contractor roster is titled to |
| 0 | national claims drawn from our own store |
These are counted from the published pages, not asserted. Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking.
How we work
- Primary sources only. A rule comes from the statute, ordinance, board or agency that issued it, cited by section, with the URL and the retrieval date. We do not cite a blog that cites a code.
- Coverage is a number, not a vibe. A table titled to fifty states has fifty sourced rows. A table of cities is titled to the cities we actually read. Gaps are published as gaps.
- Store-based facts stay inside the seven states. Texas, Arizona, Washington, California, Oregon, Florida and North Carolina. Texas is the largest roster on the weakest evidence — a self-reported NAICS sales-tax permit — because Texas licenses no landscaper. National claims rest on federal or state agency data, never on our counts.
- Fact, calculation, analysis and recommendation stay labelled. "According to…" is a source. "HyreYard analysed… and calculated…" is ours. "This suggests…" is interpretation. We do not present our reading as something the source stated.
- We do not landscape, irrigate, treat pests or pull permits, and we take no payment for placement, ranking or a favourable mention. Nobody buys a position on this site.
Our editorial standards
Primary sources first
Regional, water and plant claims are sourced to federal agencies and extension services, and the references are published on the page.
Regional over general
Outdoor advice that ignores geography is close to useless, so we point at the regional authority rather than average across the country.
Gaps stay visible
Unverified is stated as unverified. An honest gap is more useful to a homeowner than a confident invention.
No paid placement in editorial
We expect to earn revenue by introducing homeowners to landscaping companies. That will be disclosed where it applies, and it will not affect what we say about base preparation, drainage or plant choice.
The full version, including how corrections are handled and when a review date is allowed to move, is on the editorial policy.
What we have not verified
Every site claims accuracy. Fewer publish the gaps, so here are ours as they stand today.
- We verify no insurance certificate with any carrier. In this trade that matters more than the licence question, because tree work, machinery beside a house and excavation near utilities are where an uninsured contractor becomes your exposure. Ask for a certificate issued directly by the insurer.
- We confirm no pesticide applicator licence with a state agency. What we publish instead is how to check one yourself, on lawn chemicals, licensing and labels.
- We collect no homeowner reviews and publish no ratings. A rating without a published policy on solicitation, moderation and removal is a number that looks like evidence and is not one.
- We did not read the ANSI tree-care standards themselves. The publisher’s site returned an error to automated retrieval, so we record their titles, scope and secretariat and quote no clause text from them.
- Model-code figures are model figures. Permit thresholds, footing depths and frost lines are set and routinely amended by the jurisdiction that will inspect the work. We publish the shape of the rule and tell you to confirm the number locally, because that is the only honest form that advice can take.
Where we are
HyreYard publishes at hyreyard.com, from 6975 Union Park Avenue, Midvale, UT 84047, United States. Corrections, deletion requests and questions all go through contact, and corrections are the ones we want most.
Related
- How HyreYard works — what happens after an enquiry, in three steps.
- Frequently asked questions — the yard, the money, the permits and this site’s own business model.
- How we vet professionals — the checks performed today and the ones openly not.
- Lead quality standard — the rules we hold ourselves to on your details.
- The research studies — primary sources, read and dated.
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